How we are funded

The core funding for the Institute comes from a separate educational charity called the Alliance House Foundation (no. 208554), of which the Institute is a subsidiary company.  All of the Institute’s legal aims are also the aims of the AHF, although the AHF also has some additional aims that they fulfil through activities outside the Institute.

We also receive funding from other sources for particular projects, in particular the European Commission for two major projects (Alcohol in the Family, and Alcohol in Europe – a public health perspective).

The AHF itself was originally formed during the temperance movement, which was one of the largest mass movements ever seen in this country, and was linked to a number of other progressive movements (including the founding of the Labour party).  However, times have changed, and the AHF has moved on from some of its original viewpoints.  The Institute was set up to continue those parts of the work that are still relevant today – promoting scientific understanding, and promoting effective prevention of alcohol-related harm – and it is these two areas that are the shared legal aims of both the Institute and the AHF.